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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2016-11-22 12:06:50 -0600
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2017-01-06 10:40:13 +0100
commite71b4e061c9677cef1f1f38fd7236e198fab1287 (patch)
treeca6ebd0889260f299e091cee694d79fdfea23dad /include/linux/ptrace.h
parente747b4ae3b6bca205d82e86366e140cdcbfb7731 (diff)
ptrace: Don't allow accessing an undumpable mm
commit 84d77d3f06e7e8dea057d10e8ec77ad71f721be3 upstream. It is the reasonable expectation that if an executable file is not readable there will be no way for a user without special privileges to read the file. This is enforced in ptrace_attach but if ptrace is already attached before exec there is no enforcement for read-only executables. As the only way to read such an mm is through access_process_vm spin a variant called ptrace_access_vm that will fail if the target process is not being ptraced by the current process, or the current process did not have sufficient privileges when ptracing began to read the target processes mm. In the ptrace implementations replace access_process_vm by ptrace_access_vm. There remain several ptrace sites that still use access_process_vm as they are reading the target executables instructions (for kernel consumption) or register stacks. As such it does not appear necessary to add a permission check to those calls. This bug has always existed in Linux. Fixes: v1.0 Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/ptrace.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/ptrace.h3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/ptrace.h b/include/linux/ptrace.h
index e13bfdf7f314..e0e539321ab9 100644
--- a/include/linux/ptrace.h
+++ b/include/linux/ptrace.h
@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@
#include <linux/pid_namespace.h> /* For task_active_pid_ns. */
#include <uapi/linux/ptrace.h>
+extern int ptrace_access_vm(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned long addr,
+ void *buf, int len, unsigned int gup_flags);
+
/*
* Ptrace flags
*